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Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC
Reports that Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb was being flown into London to boost ratings are false, the network claims
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 31, 2012 at 05:02 PM
The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being... More
Audit Notes: Taibbi on TBTF, the paranoid rich, Olympics
An NYT op-ed elides some critical context
By Ryan Chittum Aug 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It's unclear why The New York Times is running op-eds on finance from a guy who is still operating under... More
Between the Spreadsheets
CJR and the Tow Center’s new column on data visualization takes on the Olympics
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 8, 2012 at 04:30 PM
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging... More
Drugs and the Olympics
What if reporters imbedded with athletes during training?
By Robert Weintraub Aug 13, 2012 at 02:56 PM
The first week of the Olympics is traditionally given over to complaints about NBC’s coverage, as we discussed last week.... More
ESPN’s Tim Tebow lovefest
Shut out of the Olympics, the ‘Worldwide Leader In Sports’ puts NFL front and center
By Robert Weintraub Aug 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM
US sports coverage last week was split neatly into two distinct, Jungian halves, represented by those sportscasting sweethearts, married couple... More
Pomp and circumstance: How do Americans see the Brits?
Two American correspondents tell how they explain British idiosyncrasies
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It took the Olympics to prove it: Britain might as well be Middle Earth to most Americans. Only that could... More
Ready, set for an interactive Olympics
Outlets strike deals to bump viewer engagement during the games
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The London Olympics officially open in two weeks, which means media outlets are gearing up to cover them. That requires... More
The Olympics’s women coverage
It should be about female athletes’ achievements, but it’s often more focused on their chromosomes
By Jennifer Vanasco Aug 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Gender issues were threaded throughout... More
The science of performance
Reuters writer reviews the research amid London Olympics
By Curtis Brainard Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Does sex diminish athletic vigor? Does athletic tape enhance it? These are just a few of the questions that one... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
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The story behind one of the best business models in the country
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